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VICTIMS or BRITISH TYRANNY AND
YIOLENCE IN IRELAND.
Patriots SIN Speak Their Miuss, Thesah
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a.d Rsmps with the Chiidren-Jey In
Aunan's Royal Psiace-A frineess Turns
Black naaiier--seenes OF Terrible Poverty
In Trafalgar ssuars-The steaes cevcrod
- Might ~ the Homeless Of Lsadss.
tcpvrioAs 1857 BY TEE srr Irtntins ana IssHiAtns
Aacosaaon
LONDON, Dot. 1.-Having found no reply
to Remember Mitehelstown," the strong war
cry furnished by the Grand Old Man 70 the
liberals and Parnellites, the Tories have
adopted the pleasing fiction that no reply Is
needed. and now proceed calmly TO have their
autumn campaign on the fallacious PROPOSE
ton that their policy hes been success. that
they have furnished the means Of rendering
Ireland peaceful. and that only the continued
support OF the English people ID necessary TO
make everything all right and enable the Tory
Ministers to devote tho next session to the In
terests Of tho country at large. Only the lead
Ing English and Irish agitators arc to blame"
rsy the Tory leaders. Tho people arc oon-
tent. delighted In fact, and. II tho agitators Will
not stop making trouble, We viii lock them up.
and tho people will support u.s."
II 10 unnecessary to provo TO American read
ers the utter absurdity Of such talk. and 1t Is
hard to believe that even the Torios themselves
can have faith in such nonsense. although 1t
has formed the burden Of all the Tory speeches
for days past Chamberlain, In hts speech at
Birmingham ON Thursday. told the crowd how
much they trusted the Tories, and as tho crowd
had been carefully picked and only admitted
by tickets. he was allowed to talk political rub
bish without interruption. II happened, how
ever. that the picked crowd was almost purely
Tory. tho Unionist element having melted
away. as have frequently remarked, In conse-
auence Of the Coercion bill and tho outrsees
following It. 30. when Chamberlain had I'm
ished by energetioally denying that he was on
the fenoe and was going to America to do fish
CRY work Just to escape responsibility. . lot OF
his hearers proceeded to vote for resolution
expressing want Of confidence in tho speaker.
This must have been very trying to Chamber
lain. for man on the fence. like man In love.
is usually the last to find out his true position.
and never By any chance imsgines that any
one else 10 aware Of IT.
Another Liberal Unionist T. W. Russell, n.
p, tried earlier In the week to feed the voters
at Plymouth the same Tory sophistry which
Chamberlain has boon dealing out. but he fool
ishly neglected picking his audience. and from
his first attempt 70 excuse the Mitchelstown
murders he was silenced BY the crowd. and tho
meeting was broken MP amid yells Of indigna-
ton and derision. which showed how little
support the Tory policy really has. and how
thoroughly the people agree with Gladstone.
who has told them that any Englishman
countensncing tho murder Of Irishmen at
which he enjoys.
In ireland the night against coercion. ofwhich
tho details are cabled to The Sun daily. still
goes on. Tbs crisis 10 delay ed by the hesitansy
Of the Government to use. in face OF public
opinion. the full power Of coercion. but 1t must
como soon. a. the Government cannot long
refuse to obey the clamoring Of tie Tory land
lords and the Tory press for the employment
OF every means In their power To stemp out tho
IriAh National League and suppress ifs SUP.
porters. Already the Government have begun
TO attack newspapers In spite Of tho protests
lions In Parliament that NO Dart ofthe Coercion
bill was aimed at the freedom Of the press
William O'Brien and T. D. Sullivan are to DO
prosecuted for having reported meeting Of
the suppressed branches of the League In their
newspapers, United Ireland and tho Nation.
Every ono knows that o'Brien is not afraid Of
anything that the Tories can do. and Sullivan,
the Lord Mayor and poet. whose vorses. full OF
scorn for coercion. have been cabled In Q
letter, Is not . bit moro frightened than his
colleague, and both propose to write up and
encourage the meetings OF Leaguers in spite
OF coercion. Balfour. and everybody else. We
shall have exciting and desperate times in Ire
land very soon II the Tories provo courageous
enough to carry out their undertaking.
The hatred ofthe people for the eonstabulsry
grows daily In bitterness. and Sir Samuel W.
Baker. tho African explorer. BRINGING his ex-
periences to bear on tho question. suggests
that the policemen be supplied with circular
shields of wicker work covered with raw hide
to protect them from the peasants stones.
Bir Samuel will have to think Of some much
better protection before many months have
passed, for peasants cannot be expected to
answer rife shots with pebbles always
Tho relations between Germany and France
hold the interest Of Europe. The present
state Of affairs promises to continue until
destructive war shall have cleared the politi-
sal atmosphere Of hatred and distrust. When
Tho killing Of q French gamekeeper and the
woundinG Of . French ofilcer by . German SOL
dior on the frontier were first reported thore
was ory on all aides that war was near and
must soon break out The event seems to
prove that there is In reality less danger Of
war now than there has been in very long
time. On both sides there Is tho strongest
evidence Of Q desire to maintain peace
and to settle the quarrel.
Not only Franco-German news, but the news
from all over the Continent has most peace
ful tone this week. The Emperor OF Austria
in his speech from the Hungarian throne takes
particular pains to say that the vast annual
armament Is kept up as wise precsutton, but
not because anything 10 going to happen soon: :
and now that Bismarck has finished on amic-
able interview. he received this evening
friendly call from signor Crispi. the italian
Premier, and Is talking matters over. 30 as to
renew and strengthen the alliance Of Austria.
Germany, and Italy with England as an out
side element against the alliance OF France
and Russia. Even the Bulgarian question.
which next to the Franeo-German complica-
lions Is the most threatening to European
peace has grown wonderfully dull so much 90.
chat We are allowed almost to forget 1t.